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Re: chkrootkit and linux 2.6



Right now chkrootkit gets lots of false positives regarding LKMs.  There
was a pretty thorough discussion just a couple days ago so look through
the archive for the details:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/

So, its _probably_ a false alarm, but ....

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On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Miek Gieben wrote:

> Hello,
>
> When reading again about the (Debian) breakin, it said you should run chkrootkit
> to see if you have a rootkit installed. Well I did. But now it is complaining
> about a LKM rootkit. But i'm running a 2.6 kernel, is this still valid then?
>
> I've checked the md5sums of some commands (ps, kill, ...) and they are equal
> to the ones I just downloaded from a debian archive.
>
> I'm not subscribe to the list - so please cc me,
>
> thanks,
>
> grtz
>       Miek
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